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Not only were they unworthy of \u003cem>The Twilight Zone\u003c/em> of old, but they also weren't nearly as good, or as smart, as a show that had begun in England in 2011,\u003cem> Black Mirror.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching \u003cem>Black Mirror\u003c/em>'s three brand-new installments on Netflix makes it clear that the series, in our current TV universe, claims and holds the fantasy anthology series crown. Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones head the team behind this show, which uses the technology of today—and the possible technology of tomorrow—to frame, inform or drive its stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooker wrote all three of these new episodes, and their scope is as wide as their impact is deep. One story is about a pop star whose personality is marketed in an Alexa-style computer figurine. Another is about a driver for an Uber-type company who blames a social media company for his personal tragedy. 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I was pretty sure I knew where this episode was going once the two characters dove into their game, but I was so wrong—and the larger questions that began being posed were so challenging—that I ended up being as blown away by the ideas as by the truly dazzling special effects.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/2bVik34nWws'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2bVik34nWws'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to slight the other new episodes, by the way. Each of them creates a new world, introduces new characters and sets in motion a story that ultimately goes deep in very uncharted territory. The episode called \"Smithereens\" stars Andrew Scott—the sexy priest \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/16/723961358/fleabag-returns-for-a-raunchy-2nd-season-and-quits-while-it-s-ahead\">in the new season of\u003c/a> Amazon's \u003cem>Fleabag\u003c/em>—as a hired driver who kidnaps a passenger. That passenger is played by Damson Idris—who, oddly enough, also appears in the new \u003cem>Twilight Zone\u003c/em> series. In that show's time-loop episode, called \"Replay,\" he plays a student heading for college who is confronted by one dangerous situation after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Black Mirror\u003c/em> episode titled \"Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too\" stars Miley Cyrus as a pink-wigged pop star whose manipulative manager has found a new way to exploit her using a tiny new high-tech toy called Ashley Too. The toy, which is part artificial intelligence, part talking-and-dancing action figure, is aimed at teenage fans. And it clearly hits the target when a young girl named Rachel (Angourie Rice) gets Ashley Too as a gift, and turns it on with a voice command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans of the original \u003cem>Twilight Zone\u003c/em> may be flashing back to the spooky \"Living Doll\" episode, in which a talking doll named Talky Tina ended up terrorizing Telly Savalas—and jumpstarting a generation of \u003cem>Chucky \u003c/em>movies. But once again, \u003cem>Black Mirror \u003c/em>is interested in going somewhere new. By the end, not only do we get a strong performance from Cyrus—but we also get to consider some very intriguing questions about the nature of celebrity, and the limits and expectations of fandom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notice that I've said almost nothing about what actually happens in these new episodes. That's because originality and uncertainty and unpredictability aren't just ingredients in the \u003cem>Black Mirror\u003c/em> stew. They \u003cem>are \u003c/em>the stew. And to experience just how good, and how different, this anthology series is—and has been, from the very start—you just have to sample it for yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Originality+And+Uncertainty+Still+Reign+As+%27Black+Mirror%27+Enters+Its+5th+Season&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112270/horrifying-surprises-still-reign-supreme-in-season-5-of-black-mirror","authors":["byline_pop_112270"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_3114","pop_3116","pop_721","pop_438","pop_648","pop_3439"],"featImg":"pop_112274","label":"pop"},"pop_108616":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_108616","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"108616","score":null,"sort":[1547588535000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"everyone-is-a-traveler-as-the-cw-returns-to-roswell-new-mexico","title":"Everyone is a Traveler as The CW Returns to 'Roswell, New Mexico'","publishDate":1547588535,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>As turn-of-the-millennium YA soaps on television go, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KycNsC2Iyw\">\u003cem>Roswell \u003c/em>\u003c/a>was no \u003cem>Buffy \u003c/em>or \u003cem>Dawson's Creek\u003c/em>, but it had its devotees. Furthermore, it was the big break for both Shiri Appleby and Katherine Heigl, both of whom are still in TV 20 years after \u003cem>Roswell\u003c/em> premiered in 1999. Now, the reboot business has found \u003cem>Roswell—\u003c/em>now called \u003cem>Roswell, New Mexico \u003c/em>in its new form on the CW. (Both are based on the Melinda Metz book series \u003cem>Roswell High.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYNUT_vxA9w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bones of the new show are the same as the earlier versions: three orphaned aliens named Max, Isobel and Michael live in Roswell, surrounded by the kitsch of a town that made its reputation as the (sort of) site of a (purported) alien landing in 1947. The joke is that while tourists come for the little green men and the funny diner names (like the Crash Down Cafe), the real aliens, now adults, walk among them, keeping secret a variety of powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inciting incident is similar in this version to the old one, too: Liz Ortecho (Jeanine Mason) has returned to Roswell, where she grew up, to visit her father. While she's there, her old friend (and perhaps more?) Max (Nathan Parsons) saves her life using his alien powers. This threatens to expose his secret, along with those of his sister Isobel (Lily Cowles) and their friend Michael (Michael Vlamis). Isobel and Michael both have other issues, other secrets, other people in their lives—as does Liz, who remains connected to her old boyfriend Kyle (Michael Trevino), who's now a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major innovation in the new version is that Liz is Latina, and her father is undocumented. This creates echoes, of course, not only with the ideas of travelers and visitors, but with the fear of discovery that exists in Liz's life as well as Max's. An early incident in the series (critics have seen three episodes) underscores the fact that Liz's father is vulnerable not only to ICE, but also to people who know what happens to him if he goes to the police or the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a CW series to its core: It fits alongside the network's superhero shows, which mix soapy drama with science fiction, and with \u003cem>Riverdale\u003c/em>, a dark spin on a premise that sounds funny. Not everything about it works—Isobel is not well developed in the early going, and Kyle seems extraneous at best, although his story starts to ramp up a couple of episodes in. Of course, it's a lot of characters to build. It may take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But parts of it work pretty well out of the gate. Mason won \u003cem>So You Think You Can Dance\u003c/em> back in 2009 and has been acting ever since, most recently on \u003cem>Grey's Anatomy\u003c/em>. She's good here, playing Liz as a scientist who's both skeptical and emotional, a hard mix for actors to figure out sometimes. It's surprising how quickly Liz and Max's relationship feels like it has weight, despite the fact that it's never easy to make a character resonate who has to do some, uh, extraordinary and weird things sometimes. There's also an interesting path for Michael that's different from the original, and that has promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108617\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jeanine Mason as Liz and Nathan Parsons as Max in 'Roswell, New Mexico.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanine Mason as Liz and Nathan Parsons as Max in 'Roswell, New Mexico.' \u003ccite>(The CW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parsons is still trying to get his arms around the character of Max, it seems, and while his scenes with Mason are pretty good, some of his other angst is ... less so. They push through a lot of plot in the first three episodes, which requires him to cover a lot of ground. Think of it this way: It's a lot easier for an actor to avoid looking silly when he looks at someone and serenely says \"no\" than it is when he's called upon to fall to his knees and scream at the sky, \"NOOOOOOOOO!\" He's quite good at the former; still working on the latter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's most important about a heavily serialized show at this stage is whether it has adequate forward momentum and adequate tension to make sticking with it seem worthwhile. It's very smart that some of the questions that could have been dragged out over a whole season, if not longer, are resolved early; that helps with momentum, in particular. And between Liz and Max and Michael, they've got enough going on to make it appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don't like CW shows but you like \u003cem>The X-Files \u003c/em>and other alien shows and you're wondering if this will be up your alley, it probably won't be. But if you like a good CW sci-fi drama, this is a good bet to add to your list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Everyone+Is+A+Traveler+As+The+CW+Returns+To+%27Roswell%2C+New+Mexico%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a solid reboot of the late-'90s drama, three secret space aliens struggle to hide their secret in a town trained to look for them.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1548200773,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":831},"headData":{"title":"Everyone is a Traveler as The CW Returns to 'Roswell, New Mexico' | KQED","description":"In a solid reboot of the late-'90s drama, three secret space aliens struggle to hide their secret in a town trained to look for them.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Everyone is a Traveler as The CW Returns to 'Roswell, New Mexico'","datePublished":"2019-01-15T21:42:15.000Z","dateModified":"2019-01-22T23:46:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"108616 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=108616","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/01/15/everyone-is-a-traveler-as-the-cw-returns-to-roswell-new-mexico/","disqusTitle":"Everyone is a Traveler as The CW Returns to 'Roswell, New Mexico'","nprImageCredit":"Ursula Coyote","nprByline":"Linda Holmes","nprImageAgency":"The CW","nprStoryId":"685488142","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=685488142&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/15/685488142/everyone-is-a-traveler-as-the-cw-returns-to-roswell-new-mexico?ft=nprml&f=685488142","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:02:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:02:27 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:02:27 -0500","path":"/pop/108616/everyone-is-a-traveler-as-the-cw-returns-to-roswell-new-mexico","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As turn-of-the-millennium YA soaps on television go, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KycNsC2Iyw\">\u003cem>Roswell \u003c/em>\u003c/a>was no \u003cem>Buffy \u003c/em>or \u003cem>Dawson's Creek\u003c/em>, but it had its devotees. Furthermore, it was the big break for both Shiri Appleby and Katherine Heigl, both of whom are still in TV 20 years after \u003cem>Roswell\u003c/em> premiered in 1999. Now, the reboot business has found \u003cem>Roswell—\u003c/em>now called \u003cem>Roswell, New Mexico \u003c/em>in its new form on the CW. (Both are based on the Melinda Metz book series \u003cem>Roswell High.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pYNUT_vxA9w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pYNUT_vxA9w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The bones of the new show are the same as the earlier versions: three orphaned aliens named Max, Isobel and Michael live in Roswell, surrounded by the kitsch of a town that made its reputation as the (sort of) site of a (purported) alien landing in 1947. The joke is that while tourists come for the little green men and the funny diner names (like the Crash Down Cafe), the real aliens, now adults, walk among them, keeping secret a variety of powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inciting incident is similar in this version to the old one, too: Liz Ortecho (Jeanine Mason) has returned to Roswell, where she grew up, to visit her father. While she's there, her old friend (and perhaps more?) Max (Nathan Parsons) saves her life using his alien powers. This threatens to expose his secret, along with those of his sister Isobel (Lily Cowles) and their friend Michael (Michael Vlamis). Isobel and Michael both have other issues, other secrets, other people in their lives—as does Liz, who remains connected to her old boyfriend Kyle (Michael Trevino), who's now a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major innovation in the new version is that Liz is Latina, and her father is undocumented. This creates echoes, of course, not only with the ideas of travelers and visitors, but with the fear of discovery that exists in Liz's life as well as Max's. An early incident in the series (critics have seen three episodes) underscores the fact that Liz's father is vulnerable not only to ICE, but also to people who know what happens to him if he goes to the police or the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a CW series to its core: It fits alongside the network's superhero shows, which mix soapy drama with science fiction, and with \u003cem>Riverdale\u003c/em>, a dark spin on a premise that sounds funny. Not everything about it works—Isobel is not well developed in the early going, and Kyle seems extraneous at best, although his story starts to ramp up a couple of episodes in. Of course, it's a lot of characters to build. It may take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But parts of it work pretty well out of the gate. Mason won \u003cem>So You Think You Can Dance\u003c/em> back in 2009 and has been acting ever since, most recently on \u003cem>Grey's Anatomy\u003c/em>. She's good here, playing Liz as a scientist who's both skeptical and emotional, a hard mix for actors to figure out sometimes. It's surprising how quickly Liz and Max's relationship feels like it has weight, despite the fact that it's never easy to make a character resonate who has to do some, uh, extraordinary and weird things sometimes. There's also an interesting path for Michael that's different from the original, and that has promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108617\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jeanine Mason as Liz and Nathan Parsons as Max in 'Roswell, New Mexico.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/ros101b_0272ra_wide-70b0503c21098ea955f1ca1f416889c096e4473a-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanine Mason as Liz and Nathan Parsons as Max in 'Roswell, New Mexico.' \u003ccite>(The CW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parsons is still trying to get his arms around the character of Max, it seems, and while his scenes with Mason are pretty good, some of his other angst is ... less so. They push through a lot of plot in the first three episodes, which requires him to cover a lot of ground. Think of it this way: It's a lot easier for an actor to avoid looking silly when he looks at someone and serenely says \"no\" than it is when he's called upon to fall to his knees and scream at the sky, \"NOOOOOOOOO!\" He's quite good at the former; still working on the latter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's most important about a heavily serialized show at this stage is whether it has adequate forward momentum and adequate tension to make sticking with it seem worthwhile. It's very smart that some of the questions that could have been dragged out over a whole season, if not longer, are resolved early; that helps with momentum, in particular. And between Liz and Max and Michael, they've got enough going on to make it appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don't like CW shows but you like \u003cem>The X-Files \u003c/em>and other alien shows and you're wondering if this will be up your alley, it probably won't be. But if you like a good CW sci-fi drama, this is a good bet to add to your list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Everyone+Is+A+Traveler+As+The+CW+Returns+To+%27Roswell%2C+New+Mexico%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/108616/everyone-is-a-traveler-as-the-cw-returns-to-roswell-new-mexico","authors":["byline_pop_108616"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_2855","pop_3426","pop_648","pop_3086","pop_743"],"featImg":"pop_108619","label":"pop"},"pop_86219":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_86219","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"86219","score":null,"sort":[1497510136000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"heres-what-the-future-has-in-store-according-to-sci-fi-movies","title":"Here's What The Future Has in Store... According to Sci-Fi Movies","publishDate":1497510136,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/06/Future.mp3\" title=\"What Do Bad Sci-Fi Movies Predict for the Next Four Years?\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the ceaseless surprises and revelations of the Current News Cycle™, one could be forgiven for wondering: “If this is just the \u003cem>first\u003c/em> \u003cem>half\u003c/em> of 2017, what in God’s name do the next four years hold for us?” Since political polls, gut instinct, and common sense seem to be failing, why \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">not\u003c/span>\u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">turn to a medium that \u003cem>never\u003c/em> gets it wrong in predicting the future: the movies? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether out of a desire for freedom of imagination, or just a fear of looking a bit silly when “2004” comes and goes without an apocalypse and/or flying cars, today’s filmmakers usually prefer to set their science fiction in a vague, undated version of The Future—one that allows for far more wiggle-room. Luckily, the hubristic action auteurs of the '80s, '90s, and early noughties clearly had \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">such qualms about firmly nailing their ideas to the proverbial church door, complete with conveniently firm calendar years. So, let’s see what the near future, as imagined by the sci-fi B-movies of yesteryear, apparently holds, shall we?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2017 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>The Running Man\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb> (1987)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: Welcome to America in 2019, when the best men don't run for president... They run for their lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2FMhBg0h_8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those of us lucky enough to have experienced this bonkers exemplar of 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger excess know that the fact that its own \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">poster \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">disagrees with itself on which year it’s set (2019? 2017? Who cares!) is by far the least strange thing about it. Based on a short story by Stephen King, \u003cem>The Running Man\u003c/em> predicted that in 2017, America would be a suffocating, culture-free police state where the top-rated TV game show consists entirely of people murdering each other live every night. As bizarre—and let’s be honest, premature—as it feels to congratulate ourselves for this, we haven’t got to that last bit \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">quite \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">yet.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 'The Running Man' \u003ccite>(TriStar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of commentators actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/in-1987-arnold-schwarzenegger-helped-to-predict-2017/512255/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">think \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170105-why-we-may-be-living-in-the-future-of-the-running-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this movie\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-trump-schwarzenegger-feud-shows-how-the-running-man-predicted-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says a lot\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-violent-post-truth-2017-predicted-in-the-running-man-we-re-living-in-it-a7506776.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about the way we live now\u003c/a>, and homicide aside, that's not so outlandish. Its loopy vision of the way reality TV and politics can become one really isn’t a foreign notion, with shiny spectacle being used by those in power as a distraction from totalitarian intent—by a U.S. President with a showbiz agent, no less. Neither is an appeal by those in power to the people’s baser impulses to acquire and retain that power. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s also something a little too familiar in the way the puppet-masters behind the show manipulate the truth to present an alternative reality for reality TV: one in which good guy Schwarzenegger, innocent of the crime he’s been imprisoned for, is parachuted into the show as prey and sold to the baying audience as a ruthless killer who deserves everything he gets. But before we get carried away lauding Arnie as the new Aldous Huxley, this movie also features a bunch of sweet jetpacks and a weird insistence on endless aerobic dance numbers (choreographed, incidentally, by Paula Abdul). And I don’t think we’re anywhere \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">near \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">as obsessed with aerobics right now as this movie thinks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2017 Plausibility Rating:\u003c/em> Thumbs up to reality TV and post-truth fake news, thumbs down for aerobics and jetpacks. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2017 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>Barb Wire\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb> (1996)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: No Laws, No Limits, No Turning Back\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2mk5MZwksg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, a little less believability for your futurescape! This version of 2017, based on the comic book series of the same name, posits that by now this country will have been utterly ravaged by the “Second American Civil War”—exactly the kind of lawless environment in which titular mercenary, bounty hunter, and nightclub owner Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson) can easily hold down three jobs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86223\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire-160x87.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire-240x130.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire-375x203.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire-520x282.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Anderson in 'Barb Wire' \u003ccite>(Gramercy Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plot, which claims to be “loosely based” on the plot of Casablanca, finds Barb becoming embroiled in a plot to help a group of freedom-loving folks escape over the border to—where else?—Canada. You may laugh, but didn’t overwhelming interest in emigrating to the land of Trudeau and universal healthcare \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37921376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crash the Canadian Immigration and Citizenship website just after the 2016 U.S. election\u003c/a>? And that was \u003cem>without\u003c/em> a civil war to light the proverbial fire under you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2017 Plausibility Rating:\u003c/em> “Oui” to Canadian refuge, “Non” to outright civil war (yet—it’s only June, after all.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2017 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106950/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>Fortress \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>(1992)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: A Prison of the Future. A High-Tech Hell. Built to Hold Anything... Except an Innocent Man.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U6oLx3xy8s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unencumbered by any pretense of \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/pYMXduKStjs?t=1m45s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Scottish accent\u003c/a>, Christopher Lambert of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Highlander \u003c/i>\u003c/a>fame plays an ex-army officer living under a regime that’s instituted a punitive one-child policy for all Americans. He attempts to flee with his pregnant wife over the border to—wait for it—Canada. In this dystopia, dissenters are dispatched to the Fortress of the title: a private maximum security prison run by the Men-Tel Corporation (if that’s not too subtle for you?), where inmates are implanted with \"Intestinators\" that’ll explode inside anyone trying to escape, and where second babies are declared illegal, extracted, and and turned into cyborgs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86224\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86224\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Lambert in 'Fortress' \u003ccite>(Dimension Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early ‘90s action hokiness aside, the privatization of America’s justice system is far from a foreign notion, and the fertility plot admittedly offers some serious \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handmaid’s Tale\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> vibes for these troubling times. So if America stays its current course of viewing reproductive rights as an entirely optional thing, perhaps the most implausible thing about \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortress \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by the end of this year will just be that tagline, which seems to quaintly suggest that prisoner innocence is somehow an entirely alien concept within the U.S. justice system. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2017 Plausibility Rating:\u003c/em> “Aye” for the Prison Industrial Complex, Canadian utopia (again), and reproductive nightmares. “Nay” for cyborg babies.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2018 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003ci>Terminator Salvation \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>(2009)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: The End Begins\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Czz-TcWCkA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This movie, which is more usually known as “The Terminator sequel with Christian Bale in it,” and which might actually be the most joyless action movie of the last decade, was the only one I could find explicitly set in the year 2018.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86226\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86226\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Terminator in 'Terminator Salvation' \u003ccite>(Warner Bros. Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So dull is its vision of a post-apocalyptic America in ruins, most people don’t actually recall seeing \u003cem>Terminator Salvation\u003c/em>, even if they \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have—\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">but in essence, this movie hypothesized that we’d have been at war with murderous cyborgs since 2003, who have also worked out how to genetically engineer human-cyborg hybrids. While 2003 wasn’t a great year for a lot of us, I don’t \u003cem>recall\u003c/em> a robot apocalypse taking place, so to be honest we don’t even need to give this one a 2018 Plausibility Rating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2019 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>Blade Runner\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb> (1982)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: Man Has Met His Match.. Now It’s His Problem\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogpIG53Cis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trust me, I’m as angry as you are about the fact that \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blade Runner\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is appearing in the same round-up as\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Terminator Salvation\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barb Wire—\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">but as concretely-timestamped imaginings of the hell that awaits us in the future, they don’t come finer. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To get the (synthetic) elephant in the room out of the way: it’s highly unlikely that by 2019, humankind will have expanded into space so comprehensively as to have created the off-world colonies imagined in this movie. Or that we’ll have\u003ca href=\"http://bladerunner.wikia.com/wiki/Priscilla_Stratton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> sentient, angsty replicants that look like Darryl Hannah\u003c/a>, let alone an entire division of the LAPD dedicated to hunting them down. But because \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blade Runner\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a truly great movie from the mind of Philip K. Dick, it dares to make some interesting, considered thought-out predictions about what 2019 might look and feel like beyond just “there will be jumpsuits.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86227\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-160x80.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-800x400.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-768x384.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-1180x590.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-960x480.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-240x120.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-375x188.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-520x260.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2019 L.A., flying cars and all, in 'Blade Runner' \u003ccite>(Warner Bros.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many futuristic movies insist on imbuing their settings with a blown-out shininess that’s meant to be a visual signifier of The Future, but\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Blade Runner \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">at least nails \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFJF2CRASRM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how polluted and grimy any big American city will almost certainly look in two years’ time\u003c/a>—gigantic, oppressive digital billboards and all. One of the more intriguing, plausible predictions is a change in spoken language—people in \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em>’s 2019 Los Angeles speak a new patois that mixes European and East Asian languages, which is not far fetched at all. Also, space exploration in this world seems to be pretty privatized, which, \u003ca href=\"http://www.virgingalactic.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if Richard Branson gets his way\u003c/a>, is exactly how it’ll be.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2019 Plausibility Rating\u003c/em>: Off-world colonies, replicants and (yes) flying cars—probably not. Pretty much everything else—seems legit.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2019 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>The Island\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> (2005)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: Plan Your Escape\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZyNJ3cKfEg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up against \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blade Runner, \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">all other visions of 2019 seem a tad redundant, which makes this utterly forgotten clunker from the strange days when “they” were trying to make Ewan McGregor an action hero even less worthy of your consideration. In this version of 2019, if you’re rich, you can afford your own handy identical clone, which will live its own life, until you’re in need of a new eye, or arm, or surrogate womb—at which point, your doppelgänger is ruthlessly harvested for its constituent parts. But your clone doesn’t \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">know \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it’s a clone! What happens when the clones fight back?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor in 'The Island' \u003ccite>(DreamWorks Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even though it’s sort of another imagining of a 2019 society that sees synthetic people as an acceptable moral compromise in the face of mortal frailty, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Island\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tad \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">less concerned than \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blade Runner\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the devastating philosophical complexities of what it truly means to be human. In other words, it's basically \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never Let Me Go \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">for morons.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2019 Plausibility Rating:\u003c/em> A probably-nope for clone harvesting (I mean, it is two whole years away) and a definitely-nope for Ewan McGregor as action hero—in 2019, or any other year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2020 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253556/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>Reign of Fire \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>(2002)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: Fight Fire With Fire\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7bjwEXp7Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, if we haven’t been wiped out by the Second American Civil War or a robo-apocalypse by then, we will have to undergo another U.S. presidential election. But according to this movie, we might have bigger problems in 2020… because we’ll be at war with dragons.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86230\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire-160x68.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire-240x101.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire-375x158.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire-520x220.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Reign of Fire' \u003ccite>(Buena Vista Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Fire_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia synopses\u003c/a> often say it best, this movie is set “twenty years after London tunneling project workers inadvertently awakened dragons from centuries of slumber and the creatures have subsequently replaced humans as the dominant species on Earth.” The War on Dragons, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reign of Fire \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">supposes, will have knocked mankind back to a kind of Dark Ages, where flaming crossbows are our primary weapons, and all men must sport impressive beards. There’s very little else to say about this—admittedly very fun—film, other than that it boasts Matthew McConaughey at the very nascence of the career resurrection known as “\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-mcconaissance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The McConaissance\u003c/a>,” and is a way better futuristic movie starring Christian Bale than \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terminator Salvation\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2020 Plausibility Rating\u003c/em>: Why am I even asking. 100%!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>In summary, if low-grade sci-fi movies (and \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em>) offer us any wise predictions for the next four years, it’s that:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cloning and/or cyborg-human hybrids are just around the corner.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That very technology will almost certain try to kill us.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If it doesn’t manage it, privatization and the corporate interests of a shadowy business elite will instead.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You should submit your asylum application to Canada right now to beat the rush.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Since political polls and common sense seem to be failing, why not turn to a medium that never gets it wrong in predicting the future: the movies? ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1641336481,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":2191},"headData":{"title":"Here's What The Future Has in Store... According to Sci-Fi Movies - KQED Pop","description":"Since political polls and common sense seem to be failing, why not turn to a medium that never gets it wrong in predicting the future: the movies? ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Here's What The Future Has in Store... According to Sci-Fi Movies","datePublished":"2017-06-15T07:02:16.000Z","dateModified":"2022-01-04T22:48:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"86219 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=86219","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/06/15/heres-what-the-future-has-in-store-according-to-sci-fi-movies/","disqusTitle":"Here's What The Future Has in Store... According to Sci-Fi Movies","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/pop/86219/heres-what-the-future-has-in-store-according-to-sci-fi-movies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"program":"The Cooler","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg","label":"src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/06/Future.mp3\" title=\"What Do Bad Sci-Fi Movies Predict for the Next Four Years?\""},"numeric":["src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/06/Future.mp3\" title=\"What","Do","Bad","Sci-Fi","Movies","Predict","for","the","Next","Four","Years?\""]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the ceaseless surprises and revelations of the Current News Cycle™, one could be forgiven for wondering: “If this is just the \u003cem>first\u003c/em> \u003cem>half\u003c/em> of 2017, what in God’s name do the next four years hold for us?” Since political polls, gut instinct, and common sense seem to be failing, why \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">not\u003c/span>\u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">turn to a medium that \u003cem>never\u003c/em> gets it wrong in predicting the future: the movies? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether out of a desire for freedom of imagination, or just a fear of looking a bit silly when “2004” comes and goes without an apocalypse and/or flying cars, today’s filmmakers usually prefer to set their science fiction in a vague, undated version of The Future—one that allows for far more wiggle-room. Luckily, the hubristic action auteurs of the '80s, '90s, and early noughties clearly had \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">such qualms about firmly nailing their ideas to the proverbial church door, complete with conveniently firm calendar years. So, let’s see what the near future, as imagined by the sci-fi B-movies of yesteryear, apparently holds, shall we?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2017 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>The Running Man\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb> (1987)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: Welcome to America in 2019, when the best men don't run for president... They run for their lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/i2FMhBg0h_8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/i2FMhBg0h_8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those of us lucky enough to have experienced this bonkers exemplar of 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger excess know that the fact that its own \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">poster \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">disagrees with itself on which year it’s set (2019? 2017? Who cares!) is by far the least strange thing about it. Based on a short story by Stephen King, \u003cem>The Running Man\u003c/em> predicted that in 2017, America would be a suffocating, culture-free police state where the top-rated TV game show consists entirely of people murdering each other live every night. As bizarre—and let’s be honest, premature—as it feels to congratulate ourselves for this, we haven’t got to that last bit \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">quite \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">yet.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/arnold-2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 'The Running Man' \u003ccite>(TriStar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of commentators actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/in-1987-arnold-schwarzenegger-helped-to-predict-2017/512255/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">think \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170105-why-we-may-be-living-in-the-future-of-the-running-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this movie\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-trump-schwarzenegger-feud-shows-how-the-running-man-predicted-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says a lot\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-violent-post-truth-2017-predicted-in-the-running-man-we-re-living-in-it-a7506776.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about the way we live now\u003c/a>, and homicide aside, that's not so outlandish. Its loopy vision of the way reality TV and politics can become one really isn’t a foreign notion, with shiny spectacle being used by those in power as a distraction from totalitarian intent—by a U.S. President with a showbiz agent, no less. Neither is an appeal by those in power to the people’s baser impulses to acquire and retain that power. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s also something a little too familiar in the way the puppet-masters behind the show manipulate the truth to present an alternative reality for reality TV: one in which good guy Schwarzenegger, innocent of the crime he’s been imprisoned for, is parachuted into the show as prey and sold to the baying audience as a ruthless killer who deserves everything he gets. But before we get carried away lauding Arnie as the new Aldous Huxley, this movie also features a bunch of sweet jetpacks and a weird insistence on endless aerobic dance numbers (choreographed, incidentally, by Paula Abdul). And I don’t think we’re anywhere \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">near \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">as obsessed with aerobics right now as this movie thinks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2017 Plausibility Rating:\u003c/em> Thumbs up to reality TV and post-truth fake news, thumbs down for aerobics and jetpacks. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2017 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>Barb Wire\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb> (1996)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: No Laws, No Limits, No Turning Back\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/F2mk5MZwksg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/F2mk5MZwksg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, a little less believability for your futurescape! This version of 2017, based on the comic book series of the same name, posits that by now this country will have been utterly ravaged by the “Second American Civil War”—exactly the kind of lawless environment in which titular mercenary, bounty hunter, and nightclub owner Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson) can easily hold down three jobs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86223\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire-160x87.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire-240x130.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire-375x203.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/gallery-1483461030-barb-wire-520x282.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Anderson in 'Barb Wire' \u003ccite>(Gramercy Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plot, which claims to be “loosely based” on the plot of Casablanca, finds Barb becoming embroiled in a plot to help a group of freedom-loving folks escape over the border to—where else?—Canada. You may laugh, but didn’t overwhelming interest in emigrating to the land of Trudeau and universal healthcare \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37921376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crash the Canadian Immigration and Citizenship website just after the 2016 U.S. election\u003c/a>? And that was \u003cem>without\u003c/em> a civil war to light the proverbial fire under you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2017 Plausibility Rating:\u003c/em> “Oui” to Canadian refuge, “Non” to outright civil war (yet—it’s only June, after all.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2017 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106950/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>Fortress \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>(1992)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: A Prison of the Future. A High-Tech Hell. Built to Hold Anything... Except an Innocent Man.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3U6oLx3xy8s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3U6oLx3xy8s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unencumbered by any pretense of \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/pYMXduKStjs?t=1m45s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Scottish accent\u003c/a>, Christopher Lambert of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Highlander \u003c/i>\u003c/a>fame plays an ex-army officer living under a regime that’s instituted a punitive one-child policy for all Americans. He attempts to flee with his pregnant wife over the border to—wait for it—Canada. In this dystopia, dissenters are dispatched to the Fortress of the title: a private maximum security prison run by the Men-Tel Corporation (if that’s not too subtle for you?), where inmates are implanted with \"Intestinators\" that’ll explode inside anyone trying to escape, and where second babies are declared illegal, extracted, and and turned into cyborgs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86224\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86224\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/01119-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Lambert in 'Fortress' \u003ccite>(Dimension Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early ‘90s action hokiness aside, the privatization of America’s justice system is far from a foreign notion, and the fertility plot admittedly offers some serious \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handmaid’s Tale\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> vibes for these troubling times. So if America stays its current course of viewing reproductive rights as an entirely optional thing, perhaps the most implausible thing about \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortress \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by the end of this year will just be that tagline, which seems to quaintly suggest that prisoner innocence is somehow an entirely alien concept within the U.S. justice system. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2017 Plausibility Rating:\u003c/em> “Aye” for the Prison Industrial Complex, Canadian utopia (again), and reproductive nightmares. “Nay” for cyborg babies.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2018 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003ci>Terminator Salvation \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>(2009)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: The End Begins\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-Czz-TcWCkA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-Czz-TcWCkA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This movie, which is more usually known as “The Terminator sequel with Christian Bale in it,” and which might actually be the most joyless action movie of the last decade, was the only one I could find explicitly set in the year 2018.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86226\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86226\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Terminator_salvation_13-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Terminator in 'Terminator Salvation' \u003ccite>(Warner Bros. Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So dull is its vision of a post-apocalyptic America in ruins, most people don’t actually recall seeing \u003cem>Terminator Salvation\u003c/em>, even if they \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have—\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">but in essence, this movie hypothesized that we’d have been at war with murderous cyborgs since 2003, who have also worked out how to genetically engineer human-cyborg hybrids. While 2003 wasn’t a great year for a lot of us, I don’t \u003cem>recall\u003c/em> a robot apocalypse taking place, so to be honest we don’t even need to give this one a 2018 Plausibility Rating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2019 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>Blade Runner\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb> (1982)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: Man Has Met His Match.. Now It’s His Problem\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eogpIG53Cis'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eogpIG53Cis'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trust me, I’m as angry as you are about the fact that \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blade Runner\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is appearing in the same round-up as\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Terminator Salvation\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barb Wire—\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">but as concretely-timestamped imaginings of the hell that awaits us in the future, they don’t come finer. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To get the (synthetic) elephant in the room out of the way: it’s highly unlikely that by 2019, humankind will have expanded into space so comprehensively as to have created the off-world colonies imagined in this movie. Or that we’ll have\u003ca href=\"http://bladerunner.wikia.com/wiki/Priscilla_Stratton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> sentient, angsty replicants that look like Darryl Hannah\u003c/a>, let alone an entire division of the LAPD dedicated to hunting them down. But because \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blade Runner\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a truly great movie from the mind of Philip K. Dick, it dares to make some interesting, considered thought-out predictions about what 2019 might look and feel like beyond just “there will be jumpsuits.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86227\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-160x80.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-800x400.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-768x384.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-1180x590.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-960x480.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-240x120.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-375x188.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/Blade_Runner_1982_673-520x260.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2019 L.A., flying cars and all, in 'Blade Runner' \u003ccite>(Warner Bros.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many futuristic movies insist on imbuing their settings with a blown-out shininess that’s meant to be a visual signifier of The Future, but\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Blade Runner \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">at least nails \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFJF2CRASRM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how polluted and grimy any big American city will almost certainly look in two years’ time\u003c/a>—gigantic, oppressive digital billboards and all. One of the more intriguing, plausible predictions is a change in spoken language—people in \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em>’s 2019 Los Angeles speak a new patois that mixes European and East Asian languages, which is not far fetched at all. Also, space exploration in this world seems to be pretty privatized, which, \u003ca href=\"http://www.virgingalactic.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if Richard Branson gets his way\u003c/a>, is exactly how it’ll be.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2019 Plausibility Rating\u003c/em>: Off-world colonies, replicants and (yes) flying cars—probably not. Pretty much everything else—seems legit.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2019 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>The Island\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> (2005)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: Plan Your Escape\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_ZyNJ3cKfEg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_ZyNJ3cKfEg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up against \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blade Runner, \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">all other visions of 2019 seem a tad redundant, which makes this utterly forgotten clunker from the strange days when “they” were trying to make Ewan McGregor an action hero even less worthy of your consideration. In this version of 2019, if you’re rich, you can afford your own handy identical clone, which will live its own life, until you’re in need of a new eye, or arm, or surrogate womb—at which point, your doppelgänger is ruthlessly harvested for its constituent parts. But your clone doesn’t \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">know \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it’s a clone! What happens when the clones fight back?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/FILzMNQQm157PL_1_a-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor in 'The Island' \u003ccite>(DreamWorks Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even though it’s sort of another imagining of a 2019 society that sees synthetic people as an acceptable moral compromise in the face of mortal frailty, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Island\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tad \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">less concerned than \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blade Runner\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the devastating philosophical complexities of what it truly means to be human. In other words, it's basically \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never Let Me Go \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">for morons.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2019 Plausibility Rating:\u003c/em> A probably-nope for clone harvesting (I mean, it is two whole years away) and a definitely-nope for Ewan McGregor as action hero—in 2019, or any other year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>2020 as envisioned by... \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253556/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>\u003ci>Reign of Fire \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>(2002)\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagline: Fight Fire With Fire\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Wg7bjwEXp7Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Wg7bjwEXp7Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, if we haven’t been wiped out by the Second American Civil War or a robo-apocalypse by then, we will have to undergo another U.S. presidential election. But according to this movie, we might have bigger problems in 2020… because we’ll be at war with dragons.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86230\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-86230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire-160x68.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire-240x101.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire-375x158.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/reign-of-fire-520x220.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Reign of Fire' \u003ccite>(Buena Vista Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Fire_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia synopses\u003c/a> often say it best, this movie is set “twenty years after London tunneling project workers inadvertently awakened dragons from centuries of slumber and the creatures have subsequently replaced humans as the dominant species on Earth.” The War on Dragons, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reign of Fire \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">supposes, will have knocked mankind back to a kind of Dark Ages, where flaming crossbows are our primary weapons, and all men must sport impressive beards. There’s very little else to say about this—admittedly very fun—film, other than that it boasts Matthew McConaughey at the very nascence of the career resurrection known as “\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-mcconaissance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The McConaissance\u003c/a>,” and is a way better futuristic movie starring Christian Bale than \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terminator Salvation\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>2020 Plausibility Rating\u003c/em>: Why am I even asking. 100%!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>In summary, if low-grade sci-fi movies (and \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em>) offer us any wise predictions for the next four years, it’s that:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cloning and/or cyborg-human hybrids are just around the corner.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That very technology will almost certain try to kill us.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If it doesn’t manage it, privatization and the corporate interests of a shadowy business elite will instead.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You should submit your asylum application to Canada right now to beat the rush.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/86219/heres-what-the-future-has-in-store-according-to-sci-fi-movies","authors":["3243"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_648"],"featImg":"pop_86430","label":"pop"},"pop_86419":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_86419","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"86419","score":null,"sort":[1497510056000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-do-bad-sci-fi-movies-predict-for-the-next-four-years","title":"What Do Bad Sci-Fi Movies Predict for the Next Few Years?","publishDate":1497510056,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Get ready for cyborg babies, televised death matches, and lots o' dragons! Also, we investigate the Song of the Summer phenomenon and share a few 2017 contenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/06/Future.mp3\" title=\"What Do Bad Sci-Fi Movies Predict for the Next Few Years?\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's in store for us over the next couple of years? 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And find us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED-Pop-336039936485067/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> & \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedpop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/86419/what-do-bad-sci-fi-movies-predict-for-the-next-four-years","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_2793"],"tags":["pop_648","pop_2859"],"featImg":"pop_86492","label":"pop"},"pop_14418":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_14418","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"14418","score":null,"sort":[1432040564000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-science-fiction-becomes-reality-writers-predictions-that-came-true","title":"When Science Fiction Becomes Reality: Writers' Predictions That Came True","publishDate":1432040564,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>The illustrious science fiction writer Ray Bradbury loved to tell a certain story during interviews: when he was in his 30s and lived in New York, all his contemporaries liked to laugh at him at their fancy dinner parties over his seemingly far-fetched ideas. Bradbury kept all their phone numbers and, after the first moon landing, he called many of them, laughed and hung up, happy that his fantasy of space exploration had finally become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is just one instance of a science fiction writer anticipating future technology or lifestyle changes here on Earth, both large and small. The following authors are a testament to the power of human imagination and how it can help inspire a whole new way of doing things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Advancements:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-16393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_Jules_Verne-400x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_Jules_Verne-400x574.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_Jules_Verne.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Edward Bellamy: It’s hard to imagine that someone in 1888 was wondering how modern society would spend their money. But Bellamy’s popular novel \u003cem>Looking Backward\u003c/em> introduced the idea of “universal credit” and paved the way for advancements in shopping…and millions of people in credit card debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• H.G. 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In his seminal novel, \u003cem>Fahrenheit 451\u003c/em>, Bradbury’s description of “little seashells….thimble radios” which were responsible for an “electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk” certainly seemed to anticipate one of the most used technologies of the 2000s: the earbud. \u003cem>The Martian Chronicles\u003c/em> also warned against some of the repercussions of nuclear warfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYgdX2PxyQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Arthur C. Clarke: Not just a popular film, \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em> is also a fascinating book, which offers a description of a device called a “newspad” that is eerily similar to a modern tablet. Other Clarke\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYgdX2PxyQ\"> predictions\u003c/a>: mass transit and remote surgery (see video above). Additionally, a shorter manuscript was said to imagine a vast telecommunications satellite array that helped with television signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• William Gibson: Gibson coined the word “cyberspace” in an early short story, “Burning Chrome,” more than a decade before the World Wide Web was even invented. His seminal work, \u003cem>Neuromancer,\u003c/em> offered a further glimpse into the world of the Internet and guessed, rightly, that there would be computer hackers in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• David Brin: His 1990 book \u003cem>EARTH\u003c/em> describes “21st-century characters using screen displays filled with clickable links—in other words, Web pages.” More than that, there’s an \u003ca href=\"http://earthbydavidbrin.pbworks.com/w/page/15607643/FrontPage\">entire website \u003c/a>devoted to the other aspects of life that Brin’s text got right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Social Implications:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-16396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/Stand-on-Zanzibar-cover-3.jpg\" alt=\"Stand+on+Zanzibar+cover+3\" width=\"250\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/Stand-on-Zanzibar-cover-3.jpg 609w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/Stand-on-Zanzibar-cover-3-400x673.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">• Aldous Huxley: Although published in 1930, \u003cem>Brave New World\u003c/em> still feels like a modern text thanks to details like soma, a mood-altering medication in widespread use by Londoners of the future that sounds remarkably like our current societal reliance on antidepressants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• George Orwell: While \u003cem>1984\u003c/em> was published back in 1949, adaptations of the text are very relevant today as we continue to worry about privacy, surveillance and the presence of Big Brother-esque technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• John Brunner: His 1969 novel \u003cem>Stand on Zanzibar\u003c/em> is often cited as an eerily accurate depiction of life in 2010. The novel depicts a President Obomi in a country where terrorist attacks and school violence are sadly routine. Brunner also predicted an acceptance of gays, satellite TV and electric cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what will the authors of today anticipate? Only time will tell.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Everything from tank warfare and the lunar landing to earbuds and automatic doors were predicted by sci-fi writers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1431765419,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":705},"headData":{"title":"When Science Fiction Becomes Reality: Writers' Predictions That Came True | KQED","description":"Everything from tank warfare and the lunar landing to earbuds and automatic doors were predicted by sci-fi writers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"When Science Fiction Becomes Reality: Writers' Predictions That Came True","datePublished":"2015-05-19T13:02:44.000Z","dateModified":"2015-05-16T08:36:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"14418 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=14418","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/05/19/when-science-fiction-becomes-reality-writers-predictions-that-came-true/","disqusTitle":"When Science Fiction Becomes Reality: Writers' Predictions That Came True","path":"/pop/14418/when-science-fiction-becomes-reality-writers-predictions-that-came-true","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The illustrious science fiction writer Ray Bradbury loved to tell a certain story during interviews: when he was in his 30s and lived in New York, all his contemporaries liked to laugh at him at their fancy dinner parties over his seemingly far-fetched ideas. Bradbury kept all their phone numbers and, after the first moon landing, he called many of them, laughed and hung up, happy that his fantasy of space exploration had finally become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is just one instance of a science fiction writer anticipating future technology or lifestyle changes here on Earth, both large and small. The following authors are a testament to the power of human imagination and how it can help inspire a whole new way of doing things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Advancements:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-16393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_Jules_Verne-400x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_Jules_Verne-400x574.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_Jules_Verne.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Edward Bellamy: It’s hard to imagine that someone in 1888 was wondering how modern society would spend their money. But Bellamy’s popular novel \u003cem>Looking Backward\u003c/em> introduced the idea of “universal credit” and paved the way for advancements in shopping…and millions of people in credit card debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• H.G. Wells: Often called the “father of science fiction,” Wells is known for coining the term “atomic bomb,” anticipating the creation of tank warfare, laser weapons, and more ordinary items like the automatic door and pest-resistant plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Jules Verne: Sure, he’s best known for his classics – \u003cem>Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>Around the World in Eighty Days\u003c/em>, but some of his other works like \u003cem>From the Earth to the Moon\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Paris in the Twentieth Century\u003c/em> predicted such advancements as the submarine and the lunar landing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Popular Electronics:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Ray Bradbury: There’s a reason he’s a legend of the genre. In his seminal novel, \u003cem>Fahrenheit 451\u003c/em>, Bradbury’s description of “little seashells….thimble radios” which were responsible for an “electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk” certainly seemed to anticipate one of the most used technologies of the 2000s: the earbud. \u003cem>The Martian Chronicles\u003c/em> also warned against some of the repercussions of nuclear warfare.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/FxYgdX2PxyQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FxYgdX2PxyQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>• Arthur C. Clarke: Not just a popular film, \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em> is also a fascinating book, which offers a description of a device called a “newspad” that is eerily similar to a modern tablet. Other Clarke\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYgdX2PxyQ\"> predictions\u003c/a>: mass transit and remote surgery (see video above). Additionally, a shorter manuscript was said to imagine a vast telecommunications satellite array that helped with television signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• William Gibson: Gibson coined the word “cyberspace” in an early short story, “Burning Chrome,” more than a decade before the World Wide Web was even invented. His seminal work, \u003cem>Neuromancer,\u003c/em> offered a further glimpse into the world of the Internet and guessed, rightly, that there would be computer hackers in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• David Brin: His 1990 book \u003cem>EARTH\u003c/em> describes “21st-century characters using screen displays filled with clickable links—in other words, Web pages.” More than that, there’s an \u003ca href=\"http://earthbydavidbrin.pbworks.com/w/page/15607643/FrontPage\">entire website \u003c/a>devoted to the other aspects of life that Brin’s text got right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Social Implications:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-16396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/Stand-on-Zanzibar-cover-3.jpg\" alt=\"Stand+on+Zanzibar+cover+3\" width=\"250\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/Stand-on-Zanzibar-cover-3.jpg 609w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/Stand-on-Zanzibar-cover-3-400x673.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">• Aldous Huxley: Although published in 1930, \u003cem>Brave New World\u003c/em> still feels like a modern text thanks to details like soma, a mood-altering medication in widespread use by Londoners of the future that sounds remarkably like our current societal reliance on antidepressants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• George Orwell: While \u003cem>1984\u003c/em> was published back in 1949, adaptations of the text are very relevant today as we continue to worry about privacy, surveillance and the presence of Big Brother-esque technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• John Brunner: His 1969 novel \u003cem>Stand on Zanzibar\u003c/em> is often cited as an eerily accurate depiction of life in 2010. The novel depicts a President Obomi in a country where terrorist attacks and school violence are sadly routine. Brunner also predicted an acceptance of gays, satellite TV and electric cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what will the authors of today anticipate? Only time will tell.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14418/when-science-fiction-becomes-reality-writers-predictions-that-came-true","authors":["3218"],"categories":["pop_1548"],"tags":["pop_274","pop_648"],"featImg":"pop_16395","label":"pop"},"pop_14138":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_14138","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"14138","score":null,"sort":[1416578445000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"from-interstellar-to-world-war-z-how-much-does-scientific-accuracy-matter","title":"From Interstellar to World War Z: How Much Does Scientific Accuracy Matter?","publishDate":1416578445,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Maybe it started with \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_%28film%29\">\u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Released in 1975, \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> was Stephen Spielberg’s breakout feature, and it’s widely regarded as creating the summer blockbuster model. It made a lot of money, it’s excellently structured, and it’s an efficient machine of repeatable dialogue (\"We’re gonna need a bigger boat.\" \"That’s some bad hat, Harry.\" \"Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women.\" \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/_oFl_2p_LHU?t=29s\">Smile, you son of a -- EXPLOSION\u003c/a>.\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most enduring legacy of \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> is the Spielbergian trope of marrying family drama -- most often the husband/father who wants to protect or reunite with his kids -- with sci-fi adventure. \"I have to save the world\" is a hard thing to grasp. But \"I made a promise to my daughter\"? That’s a feeling you can understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the initial conversation about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29\">\u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>\u003c/a> has focused on: Is it good science, or bad science? Real-life conversations don’t sound like they do in most movies, real-life humans don’t \u003cem>look\u003c/em> like they do in most movies, so why is there a “___________ is bad science” headline whenever a movie like \u003cem>Interstellar \u003c/em>comes out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/Rt2LHkSwdPQ?t=1m15s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Before we go any further, be warned there are spoilers below. Casual spoilers for \u003cem>Interstellar, Contagion, World War Z, \u003c/em>and for \u003cem>Back to the Future\u003c/em>. I respect your time. It can be hard to get to the movies, but sometimes you have to just say a thing in order to talk about a thing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interstellar’s \u003c/em>director is Christopher Nolan, best known for \u003ca href=\"http://amzn.com/B009JBZH54\">the Dark Knight trilogy\u003c/a>. He also wrote and directed \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception\">\u003cem>Inception\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2010, which is about the decidedly non-scientific idea of stepping into someone else’s dream. But discussing “\u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/2014/11/metaphysics-of-interstellar/\">The Metaphysics of \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>\u003c/a>” with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://wired.com\">Wired\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Nolan said “\u003cem>Inception\u003c/em> had a lot of science in it: A rigid set of rules, mathematical and geometrical in their nature, define that script. That took a very long time to work out. They’re not real science, but they have that quality. You always have to cheat in cinematic narrative, but you try to do it as little as possible and in a way that doesn’t violate the pact with the audience. In \u003cem>Inception,\u003c/em> the geometry’s pretty solid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is to say, \u003cem>Inception\u003c/em> establishes the laws of its fake science, and it abides by them. A rigid set of rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two recent science fiction movies that have similar premises that explore science (and relationships) in different ways: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_%28film%29\">\u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (released in 2011, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns) and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_%28film%29\">\u003cem>World War Z\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (released in 2013, directed by Marc Forster, written by … well, written by a whole lot of people, frankly, and based on the book by Max Brooks).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contagion’s\u003c/em> trailer begins with relationships, and then it starts to look like an action-thriller. And I call it science fiction because, in the simplest sense, it is. Not to go all term paper on you, but Webster’s says sci-fi is a story “\u003ca href=\"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science+fiction\">about how people and societies are affected by imaginary scientific developments in the future\u003c/a>.” \u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em> is a day-after-tomorrow kind of future, but a 21\u003csup>st\u003c/sup> century global pandemic remains (thankfully) science fiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/4sYSyuuLk5g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>World War Z’s \u003c/em>trailer plays out similarly, with a family in their SUV playing 20 questions (and Brad Pitt is there playing himself? Because what other dad has hair like that), but it quickly turns into…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/HcwTxRuq-uk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…yup, an action-thriller. Both \u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em> and \u003cem>World War Z\u003c/em> are movies about global pandemics and a virus spread through basic human contact. \u003cem>WWZ’s\u003c/em> virus is anthropomorphized as actual zombies coming to get you, but the social unrest that ensues is similar. Governments go into lockdown and teams of scientists race to find a cure or a vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the science of the movies are very different. \u003cem>WWZ’s \u003c/em>zombie virus transforms victims in twelve seconds exactly, and late in the film our heroes discover that an injectable vaccine-of-sorts will trick the zombies into thinking you’re already infected, making them ignore you. The question of how the zombies -- or more specifically, the virus that has taken over the human bodies -- can tell if someone has been infected or not is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/vt2HfDqiuWM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of sniffing. A little minor jaw snapping. There is not a lot of expository dialogue, except for the incredibly unhelpful, “He just walked right past him!” Over at \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/\">Vulture\u003c/a>, biophysicist and post-doctoral fellow Scott Forth \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/biophysicist-assesses-world-war-z.html\">offers a quick fact-checking of the science of \u003cem>World War Z\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> saying, “It’s completely unclear how they are able to sense an individual that is infected with some sort of illness. Smell? We see the zombie sniffing intensely at Brad Pitt, but the human olfactory system isn’t terribly sensitive. Maybe the zombies have rapidly developed super-smell abilities? Any other form of sensing the presence of infected prey, unless they just kind of know it preternaturally or something, would require methods we're not currently aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science of \u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em> got a warmer reception because it was closer to actual science. Yes, there is a scene where a researcher tries out a potential vaccine on herself, but the context is very different, and the film itself is concerned with how actual viruses travel the globe, how they are found and researched by the scientific community, and how the scientific process is the best (and maybe only) hope for stopping a future pandemic. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/oct/22/contagion-film-truth-viral-pandemic\">Screenwriter Burns worked with Dr. Ian Lipkin\u003c/a>, a professor of epidemiology, neurology, and pathology, to consider how that process could contribute to plot, as opposed to how an action/adventure plot might work a little science into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/GibtO8lMTnU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em> isn’t very action-based at all, but boy, it is absolutely terrifying. Every hand that lingers on a metal surface transferring possible germs, every cough and sneeze, is scarier than any of the snorting zombies chasing Brad Pitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How each movie treats relationships is different too. In \u003cem>WWZ\u003c/em>, the only relationship that really matters is between Brad Pitt and his family -- he, too, promises to return to them -- and solving the worldwide zombie war is simply the thing he has to do before getting back to his wife and kids. There are plenty of other characters in the movie, including a young soldier who plays the role of surrogate daughter for the movie’s middle act (\u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/wN9Obkx.png\">also \u003cem>Doctor Who’s\u003c/em> Peter Capaldi, playing a W.H.O. Doctor … !\u003c/a>), but they barely have names, much less motivations beyond \u003cem>don’t become a zombie. \u003c/em>The stakes are high in \u003cem>Contagion, \u003c/em>but, with fully realized characters like these, it would be just as interesting to watch what happens to them one year (or one decade) before or after the virus spreads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14139\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-14139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar-400x266.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Paramount Pictures\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar-1440x960.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Paramount Pictures\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em> comes from a similar place. Theoretical physicist \u003ca href=\"http://www.its.caltech.edu/~kip/\">Kip Thorne\u003c/a> has been interviewed and mentioned nearly as much as Christopher Nolan and co-screenwriter Jonathan Nolan when it comes to the movie, and with good reason. As Dr. Lipkin helped shape \u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em>, so did Dr. Thorne help shape \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>, if not moreso. Thorne worked with Jonathan Nolan on the screenplay for several years before Christopher came on to direct, and he was on set to discuss the science with actors Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Michael Caine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same \u003cem>Wired\u003c/em> article mentioned above, Christopher Nolan related that his brother “says that through working with Kip, he finally grasped relativity for a couple of weeks, and then the writers’ strike happened and he had to stop writing, and it was gone. I know exactly what he means. It’s like a little window opening up. That’s why the relationship between storytelling and the scientific method fascinates me. It wasn’t really about an intellectual understanding. It was a feeling of grasping something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A feeling of grasping something\u003c/em>. That’s what it is. Good science -- operating within the realm of what we understand, consistent logic and rules -- engaging relationships, good storytelling. More than convey truth or an accurate understanding of physics, good science allows the audience to feel like they’ve grasped something, even if it slips away after. \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> isn’t great because sharks are terrifying. \u003cem>Jaws \u003c/em>is great because sometimes you’re out in the ocean before you realize, \u003cem>We’re gonna need a bigger boat.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper tries to tell himself to stay both early and late in \u003cem>Interstellar’s\u003c/em> story, and it’s consistent with how the movie presents time travel. \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/waojxR20oRk?t=41s\">When Marty McFly starts to fade away in \u003cem>Back to the Future\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, it’s not good science -- not even in a time travel movie. But the moment when George dances with Lorraine and Marty springs back to existence? That’s \u003cem>a feeling of grasping something\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasping a feeling is hard to quantify or explain with science. But when it’s done right, you know it. That’s why they call it movie magic.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We take a look at how accurate the science in Interstellar, Contagion, and World War Z is, and how much it matters.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1421195360,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1584},"headData":{"title":"From Interstellar to World War Z: How Much Does Scientific Accuracy Matter? | KQED","description":"We take a look at how accurate the science in Interstellar, Contagion, and World War Z is, and how much it matters.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"From Interstellar to World War Z: How Much Does Scientific Accuracy Matter?","datePublished":"2014-11-21T14:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2015-01-14T00:29:20.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"14138 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=14138","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/11/21/from-interstellar-to-world-war-z-how-much-does-scientific-accuracy-matter/","disqusTitle":"From Interstellar to World War Z: How Much Does Scientific Accuracy Matter?","customPermalink":"from-interstellar-to-world-war-z-how-much-does-scientific-accuracy-matter-science","path":"/pop/14138/from-interstellar-to-world-war-z-how-much-does-scientific-accuracy-matter","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Maybe it started with \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_%28film%29\">\u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Released in 1975, \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> was Stephen Spielberg’s breakout feature, and it’s widely regarded as creating the summer blockbuster model. It made a lot of money, it’s excellently structured, and it’s an efficient machine of repeatable dialogue (\"We’re gonna need a bigger boat.\" \"That’s some bad hat, Harry.\" \"Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women.\" \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/_oFl_2p_LHU?t=29s\">Smile, you son of a -- EXPLOSION\u003c/a>.\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most enduring legacy of \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> is the Spielbergian trope of marrying family drama -- most often the husband/father who wants to protect or reunite with his kids -- with sci-fi adventure. \"I have to save the world\" is a hard thing to grasp. But \"I made a promise to my daughter\"? That’s a feeling you can understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the initial conversation about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29\">\u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>\u003c/a> has focused on: Is it good science, or bad science? Real-life conversations don’t sound like they do in most movies, real-life humans don’t \u003cem>look\u003c/em> like they do in most movies, so why is there a “___________ is bad science” headline whenever a movie like \u003cem>Interstellar \u003c/em>comes out?\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Rt2LHkSwdPQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Rt2LHkSwdPQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Before we go any further, be warned there are spoilers below. Casual spoilers for \u003cem>Interstellar, Contagion, World War Z, \u003c/em>and for \u003cem>Back to the Future\u003c/em>. I respect your time. It can be hard to get to the movies, but sometimes you have to just say a thing in order to talk about a thing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interstellar’s \u003c/em>director is Christopher Nolan, best known for \u003ca href=\"http://amzn.com/B009JBZH54\">the Dark Knight trilogy\u003c/a>. He also wrote and directed \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception\">\u003cem>Inception\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2010, which is about the decidedly non-scientific idea of stepping into someone else’s dream. But discussing “\u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/2014/11/metaphysics-of-interstellar/\">The Metaphysics of \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>\u003c/a>” with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://wired.com\">Wired\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Nolan said “\u003cem>Inception\u003c/em> had a lot of science in it: A rigid set of rules, mathematical and geometrical in their nature, define that script. That took a very long time to work out. They’re not real science, but they have that quality. You always have to cheat in cinematic narrative, but you try to do it as little as possible and in a way that doesn’t violate the pact with the audience. In \u003cem>Inception,\u003c/em> the geometry’s pretty solid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is to say, \u003cem>Inception\u003c/em> establishes the laws of its fake science, and it abides by them. A rigid set of rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two recent science fiction movies that have similar premises that explore science (and relationships) in different ways: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_%28film%29\">\u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (released in 2011, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns) and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_%28film%29\">\u003cem>World War Z\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (released in 2013, directed by Marc Forster, written by … well, written by a whole lot of people, frankly, and based on the book by Max Brooks).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contagion’s\u003c/em> trailer begins with relationships, and then it starts to look like an action-thriller. And I call it science fiction because, in the simplest sense, it is. Not to go all term paper on you, but Webster’s says sci-fi is a story “\u003ca href=\"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science+fiction\">about how people and societies are affected by imaginary scientific developments in the future\u003c/a>.” \u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em> is a day-after-tomorrow kind of future, but a 21\u003csup>st\u003c/sup> century global pandemic remains (thankfully) science fiction.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4sYSyuuLk5g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4sYSyuuLk5g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>World War Z’s \u003c/em>trailer plays out similarly, with a family in their SUV playing 20 questions (and Brad Pitt is there playing himself? Because what other dad has hair like that), but it quickly turns into…\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/HcwTxRuq-uk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/HcwTxRuq-uk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>…yup, an action-thriller. Both \u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em> and \u003cem>World War Z\u003c/em> are movies about global pandemics and a virus spread through basic human contact. \u003cem>WWZ’s\u003c/em> virus is anthropomorphized as actual zombies coming to get you, but the social unrest that ensues is similar. Governments go into lockdown and teams of scientists race to find a cure or a vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the science of the movies are very different. \u003cem>WWZ’s \u003c/em>zombie virus transforms victims in twelve seconds exactly, and late in the film our heroes discover that an injectable vaccine-of-sorts will trick the zombies into thinking you’re already infected, making them ignore you. The question of how the zombies -- or more specifically, the virus that has taken over the human bodies -- can tell if someone has been infected or not is unclear.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vt2HfDqiuWM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vt2HfDqiuWM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s a lot of sniffing. A little minor jaw snapping. There is not a lot of expository dialogue, except for the incredibly unhelpful, “He just walked right past him!” Over at \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/\">Vulture\u003c/a>, biophysicist and post-doctoral fellow Scott Forth \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/biophysicist-assesses-world-war-z.html\">offers a quick fact-checking of the science of \u003cem>World War Z\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> saying, “It’s completely unclear how they are able to sense an individual that is infected with some sort of illness. Smell? We see the zombie sniffing intensely at Brad Pitt, but the human olfactory system isn’t terribly sensitive. Maybe the zombies have rapidly developed super-smell abilities? Any other form of sensing the presence of infected prey, unless they just kind of know it preternaturally or something, would require methods we're not currently aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science of \u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em> got a warmer reception because it was closer to actual science. Yes, there is a scene where a researcher tries out a potential vaccine on herself, but the context is very different, and the film itself is concerned with how actual viruses travel the globe, how they are found and researched by the scientific community, and how the scientific process is the best (and maybe only) hope for stopping a future pandemic. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/oct/22/contagion-film-truth-viral-pandemic\">Screenwriter Burns worked with Dr. Ian Lipkin\u003c/a>, a professor of epidemiology, neurology, and pathology, to consider how that process could contribute to plot, as opposed to how an action/adventure plot might work a little science into it.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/GibtO8lMTnU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/GibtO8lMTnU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em> isn’t very action-based at all, but boy, it is absolutely terrifying. Every hand that lingers on a metal surface transferring possible germs, every cough and sneeze, is scarier than any of the snorting zombies chasing Brad Pitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How each movie treats relationships is different too. In \u003cem>WWZ\u003c/em>, the only relationship that really matters is between Brad Pitt and his family -- he, too, promises to return to them -- and solving the worldwide zombie war is simply the thing he has to do before getting back to his wife and kids. There are plenty of other characters in the movie, including a young soldier who plays the role of surrogate daughter for the movie’s middle act (\u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/wN9Obkx.png\">also \u003cem>Doctor Who’s\u003c/em> Peter Capaldi, playing a W.H.O. Doctor … !\u003c/a>), but they barely have names, much less motivations beyond \u003cem>don’t become a zombie. \u003c/em>The stakes are high in \u003cem>Contagion, \u003c/em>but, with fully realized characters like these, it would be just as interesting to watch what happens to them one year (or one decade) before or after the virus spreads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14139\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-14139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar-400x266.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Paramount Pictures\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/02_interstellar-1440x960.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Paramount Pictures\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em> comes from a similar place. Theoretical physicist \u003ca href=\"http://www.its.caltech.edu/~kip/\">Kip Thorne\u003c/a> has been interviewed and mentioned nearly as much as Christopher Nolan and co-screenwriter Jonathan Nolan when it comes to the movie, and with good reason. As Dr. Lipkin helped shape \u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em>, so did Dr. Thorne help shape \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>, if not moreso. Thorne worked with Jonathan Nolan on the screenplay for several years before Christopher came on to direct, and he was on set to discuss the science with actors Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Michael Caine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same \u003cem>Wired\u003c/em> article mentioned above, Christopher Nolan related that his brother “says that through working with Kip, he finally grasped relativity for a couple of weeks, and then the writers’ strike happened and he had to stop writing, and it was gone. I know exactly what he means. It’s like a little window opening up. That’s why the relationship between storytelling and the scientific method fascinates me. It wasn’t really about an intellectual understanding. It was a feeling of grasping something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A feeling of grasping something\u003c/em>. That’s what it is. Good science -- operating within the realm of what we understand, consistent logic and rules -- engaging relationships, good storytelling. More than convey truth or an accurate understanding of physics, good science allows the audience to feel like they’ve grasped something, even if it slips away after. \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> isn’t great because sharks are terrifying. \u003cem>Jaws \u003c/em>is great because sometimes you’re out in the ocean before you realize, \u003cem>We’re gonna need a bigger boat.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper tries to tell himself to stay both early and late in \u003cem>Interstellar’s\u003c/em> story, and it’s consistent with how the movie presents time travel. \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/waojxR20oRk?t=41s\">When Marty McFly starts to fade away in \u003cem>Back to the Future\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, it’s not good science -- not even in a time travel movie. But the moment when George dances with Lorraine and Marty springs back to existence? That’s \u003cem>a feeling of grasping something\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasping a feeling is hard to quantify or explain with science. But when it’s done right, you know it. That’s why they call it movie magic.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14138/from-interstellar-to-world-war-z-how-much-does-scientific-accuracy-matter","authors":["3228"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_2708","pop_385","pop_274","pop_648"],"featImg":"pop_14143","label":"pop"},"pop_13484":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_13484","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"13484","score":null,"sort":[1413293403000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-future-as-seen-in-movies","title":"Our Future, As Seen Throughout the History of Film","publishDate":1413293403,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Review interview\u003c/a> published only two years before his death, author Ray Bradbury said, “Science fiction pretends to look into the future, but it’s really looking at a reflection of what is already in front of us.” My first foray into the genre was through Bradbury's own \u003cem>The Martian Chronicles. \u003c/em>I still recall the mixture of fear and awe I felt, wondering if the interstellar travel he predicted would ever become a reality. No doubt, exploration and colonization of Mars wouldn't be part of my own life experience, but imagining that possibility, and considering how society might get there was compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vision of the future in science fiction - and speculative fiction in general - has never been constant; the reflection stretches and tilts like a fun house mirror, as time passes and new realities take hold. Simmering underneath fantastical settings and advanced technology are our very real, very human hopes and fears. What will happen to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/05/21/sci-fi-san-francisco-examples-of-the-city-in-the-future/\" target=\"_blank\">the cities we live in\u003c/a>, to \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/15/food-in-science-fiction-in-the-future-we-will-all-eat-lasers/\" target=\"_blank\">the food we eat\u003c/a>? What \u003ca href=\"http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367\" target=\"_blank\">jobs will we have\u003c/a>? Will we even be here at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to movies in particular, we have seen many futures over the years: bleak and ravaged worlds; sleek, regulated utopias; and subtle near futures, echoing our current realities and the immediate possibilities ahead. Let's revisit some of those themes, shall we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BETTER LIVING THROUGH CIRCUITRY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/robotcollage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13546\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/robotcollage-1024x358.jpg\" alt=\"robotcollage\" width=\"600\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-to-R: Metropolis, Blade Runner, Surrogates, Robot and Frank\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The technological advances of the late 19th and early 20th centuries served as inspiration for pioneers of science fiction like Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. (And, interestingly, E.M. Forster, whose short story \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Machine Stops\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is an early prediction of the internet, among other things.) They, and the many writers and filmmakers who followed in their stead, turned their eyes toward a future filled with incredible feats of science and engineering. But those stories also carried a sense of unease and a fear of technology taking over - perhaps even destroying - our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wariness is captured most perfectly when humanity is confronted with artificial intelligence. In many ways, it kicked off with Fritz Lang's \u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em>, in which a deceptive robotic woman plays a major role in escalating a clash between the wealthy elite and the working class of a glimmering, industrialist city. Although much of Hollywood's \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/nuclear_power/2013/01/nuclear_monster_movies_sci_fi_films_in_the_1950s_were_terrifying_escapism.html\" target=\"_blank\">science fiction output of the 1950s\u003c/a> was fueled by political paranoia and the nuclear menace, the Man vs. Machine stories carried on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest landmarks in the genre, Stanley Kubrick's \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em> (1968), gave us an iconic antagonist in HAL 9000, a sentient system that would kill out of self-preservation. With the '80s came \u003cem>The Terminator\u003c/em>, successfully combining android warfare with another popular sci-fi element, time travel; the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCZY9Z6WvSY\" target=\"_blank\">hilariously campy\u003c/a> robo-hunter flick \u003cem>Runaway\u003c/em>, starring Tom Selleck and his mustache; and the elegantly imagined \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em>, which made us ponder what it truly means to be a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as plot lines began to take on a more philosophical, compassionate angle, the undertone of Us versus Them remained. Take, for instance, the android starfleet officer, Lt. Commander Data. A beloved character on \u003cem>Star Trek: The Next Generation\u003c/em>, people still often undermined and insulted him, or even questioned his rights as an autonomous individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYp2dx652ho\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With developments in \u003ca href=\"http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/your-brain-in-2050-neural-implants-and-robotic-limbs-140603.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cybernetic augmentation\u003c/a> and robotics - \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/2014/08/tour-the-labs-where-the-worlds-creepiest-humanoid-robots-are-born/\" target=\"_blank\">humanoid\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/silent-robot-cheetah-from-darpa-and-mit-2014-9\" target=\"_blank\">otherwise\u003c/a> - making science fiction a reality, we are in a place to devote more time to contemplating the more subtle implications of humanity, not just \u003ca href=\"http://the-toast.net/2014/07/28/listicles-brief-uneasy-future/\" target=\"_blank\">coexisting\u003c/a> with artificial life, but embracing it. While ultimately falling flat (and venturing too far for my liking into uncanny valley territory with a robotic Bruce Willis), the 2009 film \u003cem>Surrogates\u003c/em> tried to imagine a world where people have chosen to live through cybernetic proxies. Although the surrogates themselves aren't independent machinery, controlled by their human counterparts remotely from the safety of their homes, that sort of augmented reality \u003ca href=\"http://singularityhub.com/2009/08/07/is-surrogates-movie-getting-closer-to-reality/\" target=\"_blank\">isn't entirely far fetched\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't have to look too far into the future to ruminate on lives becoming increasingly intertwined with artificial technology. \u003cem>Robot & Frank \u003c/em>(2012) is an understated near-future science fiction, a meditation on aging and memory. The robot in the movie is presented as a caretaker to the elderly Frank (Frank Langella), and while the older man is at first resistant, not only does he develop a friendship with the robot, they even pull off a jewelry heist together. With a renewed zest for life, Frank reconnects with the man he once was, while the robot shows an artificial life's capacity to grow and adapt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Spike Jonze's \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>, it's 2025 and Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/10/falling-in-love-with-robots-spike-jonzes-her-asks-could-it-be-so-bad/\" target=\"_blank\">falls in love\u003c/a> with an operating system called Samantha. She may be only a voice, but she jokes, flirts and wonders about being a human being, and we are once again confronted with questions of identity and humanity, questions that have existed long before machines and will continue to exist as long as we do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UTOPIA! DYSTOPIA! LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/utopiadystopia.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/utopiadystopia-1024x327.jpg\" alt=\"utopiadystopia\" width=\"600\" height=\"192\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from The Book of Eli and The Hunger Games\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/gene-roddenberry#\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Rodenberry\u003c/a> developed \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em> in the 1960s, his vision of the utopian, egalitarian humanity of the 24th century was shaped by a hopeful optimism for people's capacity to create and evolve, and to attain equality and respect between all citizens. (Well, \u003ca href=\"http://bitchmagazine.org/post/star-trek-into-feminism-three-ways-the-sci-fi-series-needs-to-change\" target=\"_blank\">to an extent\u003c/a>.) Overall, the franchise has been sincere in trying to present a truly utopian future. Beyond that, the distinction between a utopia - an ideal, perfect society, as first named by Thomas Merton - and dystopia, its grim cousin, has been quite blurry and that gray area has been fertile ground for many stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of destruction can emerge primal chaos and basic need for survival, or orderly systems that reinforce centuries old social hierarchies. Or both. Those who live outside the protective domes and walled cities occupy a harsh reality (depicted in desaturated tones, naturally), while those fortunate enough to end up within some protective enclave might have more creature comforts and luxuries, but often at a cost to their liberty. \u003cem>Divergent, The Hunger Games, The Book of Eli \u003c/em>and Bong Joon-ho's \u003cem>Snowpiercer\u003c/em> are some of the more recent examples of movies contemplating a disastrous future, but speculative fiction has been fascinated with the nuances for a long while now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previously mentioned \u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em> comes to mind, and in 1936, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemRBFFbhKI\" target=\"_blank\">H. G. Wells'\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemRBFFbhKI\" target=\"_blank\"> Things to Come\u003c/a> \u003c/em>charted the potential course of humanity from a global war in 1940 to a technologically advanced but divided society in 2036. Most of us are undoubtedly familiar with George Orwell’s dystopian novel \u003cem>Nineteen Eighty Four\u003c/em>, set in a totalitarian world of few liberties and much government surveillance. (A novel which is \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/09/16/5-old-movies-that-actually-should-be-remade/\" target=\"_blank\">probably due\u003c/a> for an updated film version.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have seen it all: a hedonistic domed city where none shall live past age 30 (\u003cem>Logan's Run\u003c/em>); a wasteland ruled by savage motorcycle gangs with wild hair (\u003cem>Mad Max\u003c/em> movies); and sophisticated, slick cities where citizens' futures are regulated by their genetic makeup (\u003cem>Gattaca\u003c/em>) or even actions that haven't taken place yet (\u003cem>Minority Report\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/02/26/americas_apocalypse_obsession_partner/\" target=\"_blank\">obsession\u003c/a> with the notion of the apocalypse, and it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/06/06/no-you-do-not-have-to-be-ashamed-of-reading-young-adult-fiction/\" target=\"_blank\">not limited\u003c/a> to teenagers devouring dystopian YA literature. Psychologically, we're \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/12/18/psychology-reveals-the-comforts-of-the-apocalypse/\" target=\"_blank\">wired\u003c/a> to ponder the end times, whether it's a world turned upside down by wars or by nature's hand. While we might do a good job imagining all the worst case scenarios as to \u003cem>how\u003c/em> it can all go down, sci-fi also helps extend our imaginations to what happens \u003cem>after\u003c/em>, and to the notion that humanity might prevail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>THE FUTURE IS A CATWALK\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fashcollage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13550\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fashcollage-1024x358.jpg\" alt=\"fashcollage\" width=\"600\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-to-R: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Fifth Element, Logan's Run, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Compelling world building is important to propel the plot, but the clothes people will wear in the future can say just as much as a perfectly designed architectural landscape. People \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/this-is-what-people-in-1893-imagined-we-would-be-wearing-in#26ywf0p\" target=\"_blank\">have been fascinated\u003c/a> with fashions of the future \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eAiy0IGBI\" target=\"_blank\">for a long while.\u003c/a> It's a delicate balance, to create a futuristic film wardrobe: make it too subtle, and people won't pick up on your intent; make it wildly \u003ca href=\"http://io9.com/5969957/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek/\" target=\"_blank\">outlandish\u003c/a>, and it may become dated (while still making for great Halloween or convention costumes); put \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz\" target=\"_blank\">a red mankini\u003c/a> on Sean Connery and... well, that's exactly what you get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my \u003ca href=\"http://hellotailor.blogspot.com/2013/09/dressing-for-apocalypse-how-to-build.html\" target=\"_blank\">pet peeves\u003c/a> is when everyone in the future dresses the same, however. In certain settings - hedonistic domed enclaves, totalitarian communities, militaristic structures - uniformity makes sense. But beyond that, it's nearsighted thinking. Considering the evolving history of fashion, the varieties of subcultures and street style that have existed, and our tendency to regurgitate trends of the past, the future should be a glorious mishmash of individual style, even if it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> picking from scrapheaps of textiles left after a nuclear fall out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that mass of black suits and silver tunics, some gems have emerged: \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://silverscreenmodes.com/?p=211\" target=\"_blank\">Blade Runner\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, with its blend of noir fashion and modern street style; \u003cem>Mad Max\u003c/em>, which gave its desert warriors a look that was both cohesive and distinct for each of the characters; the overall aesthetic of films like \u003cem>Children of Men\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Book of Eli\u003c/em>, showing a world of scarcity and priorities higher than sartorial concerns, but also glimmers of individuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fashion industry has had a long standing reciprocal relationship with science fiction films. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vogue.com/873551/dressing-the-hunger-games-costume-designer-judianna-makovsky/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Hunger Games\u003c/em> costume designer\u003c/a> Judianna Makovsky cites Alexander McQueen and Elsa Schiaparelli as indelible influences on the style of spectacle-obsessed citizens of Panem's Capitol. Couturiers' involvement in film hasn't be limited to serving as just inspiration, either. Hardy Amies, Saville Row based clothier for Queen Elizabeth II, was brought on board by Stanley Kubrick to create costumes for \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em>; Jean Paul Gaultier is responsible for dreaming up \u003ca href=\"http://onthisdayinfashion.com/?p=13466\" target=\"_blank\">more than 900\u003c/a> of the over-the-top, colorful costumes for \u003cem>The Fifth Element\u003c/em>; and even though his designs didn't make the cut, Gianni Versace came up with some \u003ca href=\"http://io9.com/5933676/unused-judge-dredd-concept-art-says-my-codpiece-is-the-law\" target=\"_blank\">pretty extravagant\u003c/a> sketches for \u003cem>Judge Dredd\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just as science fiction has had an obvious impact on our approach to \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/08/how-star-trek-artists-imagined-the-ipad-23-years-ago/\" target=\"_blank\">product design\u003c/a>, so has it had its influence - direct or subtle - on the world of fashion. From Thierry Mugler's sexy robot in the video for George Michael's \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://fierth.com/2013/03/thierry-muglers-original-unseen-video-for-too-funky-leaked-21-years-later/\" target=\"_blank\">Too Funky\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, to Gareth Pugh and Junya Watanabe's \u003ca href=\"http://weburbanist.com/2013/01/28/futuristic-fashion-35-out-of-this-world-designer-looks/\" target=\"_blank\">sculptural looks\u003c/a>, the futuristic and fantastical has made its mark on the runway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things get even more exciting when we think of garments as serving functions beyond adornment. Dutch designer \u003ca href=\"http://www.anoukwipprecht.nl/projects.html\" target=\"_blank\">Annouk Wiprecht\u003c/a> creates fashion armor that serves as an interactive link between the wearer and their environment: dresses release soft plumes of smoke or activate defensive mechanical spider legs attached to the shoulders, based on the proximity of nearby people, while another garment, Intimacy, turns transparent in response to the wearer's arousal and heartbeat. While slightly off-putting for anyone uncomfortable with needles, Israeli designer \u003ca href=\"http://design-milk.com/naomi-kizhners-parasitic-powered-jewelry/\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Kizhner\u003c/a> has come up with a concept for a small collection of bioelectrical jewelry that would react to the body's energy. And when it comes to textiles, there are \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesstylefile/2014/05/07/what-is-the-future-of-fabric-these-smart-textiles-will-blow-your-mind/\" target=\"_blank\">\"smart\" fabrics\u003c/a> that can be sprayed on the body or be controlled by mobile devices, in general elevating the stakes when it comes to science fiction's ability to outstrip reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEAR FUTURE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk_UElPrW6A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, I've developed more of an appreciation for science fiction that echoes the immediate realities of our world - films like the previously mentioned \u003cem>Robot and Frank\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>. As author \u003ca href=\"http://jessicacharlesworth.com/2014/why-sci-fi-is-obsessed-with-the-near-future-chicago-tribune-interview/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Powers says\u003c/a>, \"All we have to do is explore the cascades of futures already set in motion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite recent bits of sci-fi, combining all the elements mentioned here, is the Canadian show \u003cem>Continuum\u003c/em>. The hero is Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols), a \"Protector\" from 2077 transported back to our present day, when a group of anti-corporation terrorists, Liber8, use a time travel device to escape execution. In her time, Cameron is part of a privatized, cybernetically augmented police force in a world where the Corporate Congress of oligarchs reigns supreme and citizen surveillance is the routine. As she tries to navigate Vancouver in 2012, Cameron begins to question all that she believed in and finds an unlikely ally in a young man, Alec Sadler, who will in fact become the same corporate king that Liber8 blame for the erosion of civil liberties in the future. That is, if the future can't be altered in the present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While still requiring some suspension of disbelief - time travel is one of those things that, no matter how technologically advanced we get, is still hard to fathom - the excitement of the series lies in the way it shows a realistic present with future possibilities branching out. But as much as I find exercises in speculation on our immediate future fascinating, I'm also more than a little bit excited about Christopher Nolan's \u003ca href=\"http://www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/where-are-all-the-space-exploration-films/\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming film \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which promises to go back to what enthralled so many of us in science fiction in the first place - exploration of space. Whether looking a few years ahead, or some light years away, one thing is clear: for sci-fi storytellers, the future is wide open.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When it comes to movies, we have seen many futures over the years. Let's revisit some of them, shall we?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412578319,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":2426},"headData":{"title":"Our Future, As Seen Throughout the History of Film | KQED","description":"When it comes to movies, we have seen many futures over the years. Let's revisit some of them, shall we?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Our Future, As Seen Throughout the History of Film","datePublished":"2014-10-14T13:30:03.000Z","dateModified":"2014-10-06T06:51:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"13484 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=13484","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/10/14/a-brief-history-of-the-future-as-seen-in-movies/","disqusTitle":"Our Future, As Seen Throughout the History of Film","path":"/pop/13484/a-brief-history-of-the-future-as-seen-in-movies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Review interview\u003c/a> published only two years before his death, author Ray Bradbury said, “Science fiction pretends to look into the future, but it’s really looking at a reflection of what is already in front of us.” My first foray into the genre was through Bradbury's own \u003cem>The Martian Chronicles. \u003c/em>I still recall the mixture of fear and awe I felt, wondering if the interstellar travel he predicted would ever become a reality. No doubt, exploration and colonization of Mars wouldn't be part of my own life experience, but imagining that possibility, and considering how society might get there was compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vision of the future in science fiction - and speculative fiction in general - has never been constant; the reflection stretches and tilts like a fun house mirror, as time passes and new realities take hold. Simmering underneath fantastical settings and advanced technology are our very real, very human hopes and fears. What will happen to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/05/21/sci-fi-san-francisco-examples-of-the-city-in-the-future/\" target=\"_blank\">the cities we live in\u003c/a>, to \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/15/food-in-science-fiction-in-the-future-we-will-all-eat-lasers/\" target=\"_blank\">the food we eat\u003c/a>? What \u003ca href=\"http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367\" target=\"_blank\">jobs will we have\u003c/a>? Will we even be here at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to movies in particular, we have seen many futures over the years: bleak and ravaged worlds; sleek, regulated utopias; and subtle near futures, echoing our current realities and the immediate possibilities ahead. Let's revisit some of those themes, shall we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BETTER LIVING THROUGH CIRCUITRY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/robotcollage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13546\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/robotcollage-1024x358.jpg\" alt=\"robotcollage\" width=\"600\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-to-R: Metropolis, Blade Runner, Surrogates, Robot and Frank\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The technological advances of the late 19th and early 20th centuries served as inspiration for pioneers of science fiction like Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. (And, interestingly, E.M. Forster, whose short story \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Machine Stops\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is an early prediction of the internet, among other things.) They, and the many writers and filmmakers who followed in their stead, turned their eyes toward a future filled with incredible feats of science and engineering. But those stories also carried a sense of unease and a fear of technology taking over - perhaps even destroying - our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wariness is captured most perfectly when humanity is confronted with artificial intelligence. In many ways, it kicked off with Fritz Lang's \u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em>, in which a deceptive robotic woman plays a major role in escalating a clash between the wealthy elite and the working class of a glimmering, industrialist city. Although much of Hollywood's \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/nuclear_power/2013/01/nuclear_monster_movies_sci_fi_films_in_the_1950s_were_terrifying_escapism.html\" target=\"_blank\">science fiction output of the 1950s\u003c/a> was fueled by political paranoia and the nuclear menace, the Man vs. Machine stories carried on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest landmarks in the genre, Stanley Kubrick's \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em> (1968), gave us an iconic antagonist in HAL 9000, a sentient system that would kill out of self-preservation. With the '80s came \u003cem>The Terminator\u003c/em>, successfully combining android warfare with another popular sci-fi element, time travel; the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCZY9Z6WvSY\" target=\"_blank\">hilariously campy\u003c/a> robo-hunter flick \u003cem>Runaway\u003c/em>, starring Tom Selleck and his mustache; and the elegantly imagined \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em>, which made us ponder what it truly means to be a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as plot lines began to take on a more philosophical, compassionate angle, the undertone of Us versus Them remained. Take, for instance, the android starfleet officer, Lt. Commander Data. A beloved character on \u003cem>Star Trek: The Next Generation\u003c/em>, people still often undermined and insulted him, or even questioned his rights as an autonomous individual.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/GYp2dx652ho'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/GYp2dx652ho'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>With developments in \u003ca href=\"http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/your-brain-in-2050-neural-implants-and-robotic-limbs-140603.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cybernetic augmentation\u003c/a> and robotics - \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/2014/08/tour-the-labs-where-the-worlds-creepiest-humanoid-robots-are-born/\" target=\"_blank\">humanoid\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/silent-robot-cheetah-from-darpa-and-mit-2014-9\" target=\"_blank\">otherwise\u003c/a> - making science fiction a reality, we are in a place to devote more time to contemplating the more subtle implications of humanity, not just \u003ca href=\"http://the-toast.net/2014/07/28/listicles-brief-uneasy-future/\" target=\"_blank\">coexisting\u003c/a> with artificial life, but embracing it. While ultimately falling flat (and venturing too far for my liking into uncanny valley territory with a robotic Bruce Willis), the 2009 film \u003cem>Surrogates\u003c/em> tried to imagine a world where people have chosen to live through cybernetic proxies. Although the surrogates themselves aren't independent machinery, controlled by their human counterparts remotely from the safety of their homes, that sort of augmented reality \u003ca href=\"http://singularityhub.com/2009/08/07/is-surrogates-movie-getting-closer-to-reality/\" target=\"_blank\">isn't entirely far fetched\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't have to look too far into the future to ruminate on lives becoming increasingly intertwined with artificial technology. \u003cem>Robot & Frank \u003c/em>(2012) is an understated near-future science fiction, a meditation on aging and memory. The robot in the movie is presented as a caretaker to the elderly Frank (Frank Langella), and while the older man is at first resistant, not only does he develop a friendship with the robot, they even pull off a jewelry heist together. With a renewed zest for life, Frank reconnects with the man he once was, while the robot shows an artificial life's capacity to grow and adapt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Spike Jonze's \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>, it's 2025 and Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/10/falling-in-love-with-robots-spike-jonzes-her-asks-could-it-be-so-bad/\" target=\"_blank\">falls in love\u003c/a> with an operating system called Samantha. She may be only a voice, but she jokes, flirts and wonders about being a human being, and we are once again confronted with questions of identity and humanity, questions that have existed long before machines and will continue to exist as long as we do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UTOPIA! DYSTOPIA! LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/utopiadystopia.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/utopiadystopia-1024x327.jpg\" alt=\"utopiadystopia\" width=\"600\" height=\"192\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from The Book of Eli and The Hunger Games\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/gene-roddenberry#\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Rodenberry\u003c/a> developed \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em> in the 1960s, his vision of the utopian, egalitarian humanity of the 24th century was shaped by a hopeful optimism for people's capacity to create and evolve, and to attain equality and respect between all citizens. (Well, \u003ca href=\"http://bitchmagazine.org/post/star-trek-into-feminism-three-ways-the-sci-fi-series-needs-to-change\" target=\"_blank\">to an extent\u003c/a>.) Overall, the franchise has been sincere in trying to present a truly utopian future. Beyond that, the distinction between a utopia - an ideal, perfect society, as first named by Thomas Merton - and dystopia, its grim cousin, has been quite blurry and that gray area has been fertile ground for many stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of destruction can emerge primal chaos and basic need for survival, or orderly systems that reinforce centuries old social hierarchies. Or both. Those who live outside the protective domes and walled cities occupy a harsh reality (depicted in desaturated tones, naturally), while those fortunate enough to end up within some protective enclave might have more creature comforts and luxuries, but often at a cost to their liberty. \u003cem>Divergent, The Hunger Games, The Book of Eli \u003c/em>and Bong Joon-ho's \u003cem>Snowpiercer\u003c/em> are some of the more recent examples of movies contemplating a disastrous future, but speculative fiction has been fascinated with the nuances for a long while now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previously mentioned \u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em> comes to mind, and in 1936, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemRBFFbhKI\" target=\"_blank\">H. G. Wells'\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemRBFFbhKI\" target=\"_blank\"> Things to Come\u003c/a> \u003c/em>charted the potential course of humanity from a global war in 1940 to a technologically advanced but divided society in 2036. Most of us are undoubtedly familiar with George Orwell’s dystopian novel \u003cem>Nineteen Eighty Four\u003c/em>, set in a totalitarian world of few liberties and much government surveillance. (A novel which is \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/09/16/5-old-movies-that-actually-should-be-remade/\" target=\"_blank\">probably due\u003c/a> for an updated film version.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have seen it all: a hedonistic domed city where none shall live past age 30 (\u003cem>Logan's Run\u003c/em>); a wasteland ruled by savage motorcycle gangs with wild hair (\u003cem>Mad Max\u003c/em> movies); and sophisticated, slick cities where citizens' futures are regulated by their genetic makeup (\u003cem>Gattaca\u003c/em>) or even actions that haven't taken place yet (\u003cem>Minority Report\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/02/26/americas_apocalypse_obsession_partner/\" target=\"_blank\">obsession\u003c/a> with the notion of the apocalypse, and it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/06/06/no-you-do-not-have-to-be-ashamed-of-reading-young-adult-fiction/\" target=\"_blank\">not limited\u003c/a> to teenagers devouring dystopian YA literature. Psychologically, we're \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/12/18/psychology-reveals-the-comforts-of-the-apocalypse/\" target=\"_blank\">wired\u003c/a> to ponder the end times, whether it's a world turned upside down by wars or by nature's hand. While we might do a good job imagining all the worst case scenarios as to \u003cem>how\u003c/em> it can all go down, sci-fi also helps extend our imaginations to what happens \u003cem>after\u003c/em>, and to the notion that humanity might prevail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>THE FUTURE IS A CATWALK\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fashcollage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13550\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fashcollage-1024x358.jpg\" alt=\"fashcollage\" width=\"600\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-to-R: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Fifth Element, Logan's Run, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Compelling world building is important to propel the plot, but the clothes people will wear in the future can say just as much as a perfectly designed architectural landscape. People \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/this-is-what-people-in-1893-imagined-we-would-be-wearing-in#26ywf0p\" target=\"_blank\">have been fascinated\u003c/a> with fashions of the future \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eAiy0IGBI\" target=\"_blank\">for a long while.\u003c/a> It's a delicate balance, to create a futuristic film wardrobe: make it too subtle, and people won't pick up on your intent; make it wildly \u003ca href=\"http://io9.com/5969957/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek/\" target=\"_blank\">outlandish\u003c/a>, and it may become dated (while still making for great Halloween or convention costumes); put \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz\" target=\"_blank\">a red mankini\u003c/a> on Sean Connery and... well, that's exactly what you get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my \u003ca href=\"http://hellotailor.blogspot.com/2013/09/dressing-for-apocalypse-how-to-build.html\" target=\"_blank\">pet peeves\u003c/a> is when everyone in the future dresses the same, however. In certain settings - hedonistic domed enclaves, totalitarian communities, militaristic structures - uniformity makes sense. But beyond that, it's nearsighted thinking. Considering the evolving history of fashion, the varieties of subcultures and street style that have existed, and our tendency to regurgitate trends of the past, the future should be a glorious mishmash of individual style, even if it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> picking from scrapheaps of textiles left after a nuclear fall out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that mass of black suits and silver tunics, some gems have emerged: \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://silverscreenmodes.com/?p=211\" target=\"_blank\">Blade Runner\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, with its blend of noir fashion and modern street style; \u003cem>Mad Max\u003c/em>, which gave its desert warriors a look that was both cohesive and distinct for each of the characters; the overall aesthetic of films like \u003cem>Children of Men\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Book of Eli\u003c/em>, showing a world of scarcity and priorities higher than sartorial concerns, but also glimmers of individuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fashion industry has had a long standing reciprocal relationship with science fiction films. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vogue.com/873551/dressing-the-hunger-games-costume-designer-judianna-makovsky/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Hunger Games\u003c/em> costume designer\u003c/a> Judianna Makovsky cites Alexander McQueen and Elsa Schiaparelli as indelible influences on the style of spectacle-obsessed citizens of Panem's Capitol. Couturiers' involvement in film hasn't be limited to serving as just inspiration, either. Hardy Amies, Saville Row based clothier for Queen Elizabeth II, was brought on board by Stanley Kubrick to create costumes for \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em>; Jean Paul Gaultier is responsible for dreaming up \u003ca href=\"http://onthisdayinfashion.com/?p=13466\" target=\"_blank\">more than 900\u003c/a> of the over-the-top, colorful costumes for \u003cem>The Fifth Element\u003c/em>; and even though his designs didn't make the cut, Gianni Versace came up with some \u003ca href=\"http://io9.com/5933676/unused-judge-dredd-concept-art-says-my-codpiece-is-the-law\" target=\"_blank\">pretty extravagant\u003c/a> sketches for \u003cem>Judge Dredd\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just as science fiction has had an obvious impact on our approach to \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/08/how-star-trek-artists-imagined-the-ipad-23-years-ago/\" target=\"_blank\">product design\u003c/a>, so has it had its influence - direct or subtle - on the world of fashion. From Thierry Mugler's sexy robot in the video for George Michael's \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://fierth.com/2013/03/thierry-muglers-original-unseen-video-for-too-funky-leaked-21-years-later/\" target=\"_blank\">Too Funky\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, to Gareth Pugh and Junya Watanabe's \u003ca href=\"http://weburbanist.com/2013/01/28/futuristic-fashion-35-out-of-this-world-designer-looks/\" target=\"_blank\">sculptural looks\u003c/a>, the futuristic and fantastical has made its mark on the runway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things get even more exciting when we think of garments as serving functions beyond adornment. Dutch designer \u003ca href=\"http://www.anoukwipprecht.nl/projects.html\" target=\"_blank\">Annouk Wiprecht\u003c/a> creates fashion armor that serves as an interactive link between the wearer and their environment: dresses release soft plumes of smoke or activate defensive mechanical spider legs attached to the shoulders, based on the proximity of nearby people, while another garment, Intimacy, turns transparent in response to the wearer's arousal and heartbeat. While slightly off-putting for anyone uncomfortable with needles, Israeli designer \u003ca href=\"http://design-milk.com/naomi-kizhners-parasitic-powered-jewelry/\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Kizhner\u003c/a> has come up with a concept for a small collection of bioelectrical jewelry that would react to the body's energy. And when it comes to textiles, there are \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesstylefile/2014/05/07/what-is-the-future-of-fabric-these-smart-textiles-will-blow-your-mind/\" target=\"_blank\">\"smart\" fabrics\u003c/a> that can be sprayed on the body or be controlled by mobile devices, in general elevating the stakes when it comes to science fiction's ability to outstrip reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEAR FUTURE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lk_UElPrW6A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lk_UElPrW6A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Over time, I've developed more of an appreciation for science fiction that echoes the immediate realities of our world - films like the previously mentioned \u003cem>Robot and Frank\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>. As author \u003ca href=\"http://jessicacharlesworth.com/2014/why-sci-fi-is-obsessed-with-the-near-future-chicago-tribune-interview/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Powers says\u003c/a>, \"All we have to do is explore the cascades of futures already set in motion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite recent bits of sci-fi, combining all the elements mentioned here, is the Canadian show \u003cem>Continuum\u003c/em>. The hero is Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols), a \"Protector\" from 2077 transported back to our present day, when a group of anti-corporation terrorists, Liber8, use a time travel device to escape execution. In her time, Cameron is part of a privatized, cybernetically augmented police force in a world where the Corporate Congress of oligarchs reigns supreme and citizen surveillance is the routine. As she tries to navigate Vancouver in 2012, Cameron begins to question all that she believed in and finds an unlikely ally in a young man, Alec Sadler, who will in fact become the same corporate king that Liber8 blame for the erosion of civil liberties in the future. That is, if the future can't be altered in the present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While still requiring some suspension of disbelief - time travel is one of those things that, no matter how technologically advanced we get, is still hard to fathom - the excitement of the series lies in the way it shows a realistic present with future possibilities branching out. But as much as I find exercises in speculation on our immediate future fascinating, I'm also more than a little bit excited about Christopher Nolan's \u003ca href=\"http://www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/where-are-all-the-space-exploration-films/\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming film \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which promises to go back to what enthralled so many of us in science fiction in the first place - exploration of space. Whether looking a few years ahead, or some light years away, one thing is clear: for sci-fi storytellers, the future is wide open.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/13484/a-brief-history-of-the-future-as-seen-in-movies","authors":["2520"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_860","pop_385","pop_648"],"featImg":"pop_13863","label":"pop"},"pop_4029":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_4029","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"4029","score":null,"sort":[1366653658000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"celebrate-earth-day-with-5-movies-about-life-after-earth","title":"Celebrate Earth Day With 5 Movies About Life After Earth","publishDate":1366653658,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://thepattieproject.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4110\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.jpg\" alt=\"hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-400x248.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/19/7-steps-to-feeling-less-stressed-out-and-hopeless-today/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last week was a rough one\u003c/a> for everyone around. Explosions, manhunts, everything felt like a movie but not in a good way. This week promises to be different. For one thing, it just seems statistically unlikely we can have two consecutive weeks as bad as last week. For another, it starts of with Earth Day! Of course, Earth Day might remind you of the environmental havoc we are wreaking on Earth and the fact that in the Netherlands, \u003ca href=\"http://mars-one.com/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a non-profit called \"Mars One\" is planning a Mars colony for 2023\u003c/a> (FOR REAL), and that \u003ca href=\"http://www.universetoday.com/101489/kepler-team-finds-system-with-two-potentially-habitable-planets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two possibly inhabitable planets have recently been discovered out in the universe\u003c/a>. Thinking of Earth Day as more like a birthday party for someone with a terminal disease might get you depressed and start you on a dark downward spiral. I have another idea. First: \u003ca href=\"http://350.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do something\u003c/a>, at least virtually. Second, let these movies remind you that even if everything fails, life off-Earth isn't all bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. \u003cem>Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIf\u003cem> Hitchhikers' Guide \u003c/em>taught us anything, it is that Earth, comparatively, isn't all that great anyway. This movie will motivate you to cultivate friendships with weirdos, as they may be the alien that saves you at the very last moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGNcoB2Y4I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003cem>Avatar\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAfter \u003cem>Avatar\u003c/em> came out, there were people that fell into depression because they were so sad it wasn't real. But who SAYS it isn't real? Maybe we just haven't found Pandora, the perfect planet, yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSNL1qE6VY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. \u003cem>Serenity\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we can't live on Earth, I want to be a space cowboy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8JNjmK5lfk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. \u003cem>Return of the Jedi \u003c/em>(NOT\u003cem> Empire Strikes Back!\u003c/em>)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not living on Earth means I get to live with Ewoks, I'm ready to say goodbye to the whole thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uEXykAHRJ0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. \u003cem>Wall-e \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, yes, this is a love story between two robots, with about as dim a view of humanity as one can put in a Disney animated feature. That said, maybe the view is right. Maybe the robots deserve love AND our planet, since we can't seem to get it together on either front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alIq_wG9FNk\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Let these movies remind you that even if everything fails, life off-Earth isn’t all bad.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523563963,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":404},"headData":{"title":"Celebrate Earth Day With 5 Movies About Life After Earth | KQED","description":"Let these movies remind you that even if everything fails, life off-Earth isn’t all bad.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Celebrate Earth Day With 5 Movies About Life After Earth","datePublished":"2013-04-22T18:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2018-04-12T20:12:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"4029 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=4029","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/22/celebrate-earth-day-with-5-movies-about-life-after-earth/","disqusTitle":"Celebrate Earth Day With 5 Movies About Life After Earth","path":"/pop/4029/celebrate-earth-day-with-5-movies-about-life-after-earth","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://thepattieproject.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4110\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.jpg\" alt=\"hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-400x248.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/19/7-steps-to-feeling-less-stressed-out-and-hopeless-today/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last week was a rough one\u003c/a> for everyone around. Explosions, manhunts, everything felt like a movie but not in a good way. This week promises to be different. For one thing, it just seems statistically unlikely we can have two consecutive weeks as bad as last week. For another, it starts of with Earth Day! Of course, Earth Day might remind you of the environmental havoc we are wreaking on Earth and the fact that in the Netherlands, \u003ca href=\"http://mars-one.com/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a non-profit called \"Mars One\" is planning a Mars colony for 2023\u003c/a> (FOR REAL), and that \u003ca href=\"http://www.universetoday.com/101489/kepler-team-finds-system-with-two-potentially-habitable-planets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two possibly inhabitable planets have recently been discovered out in the universe\u003c/a>. Thinking of Earth Day as more like a birthday party for someone with a terminal disease might get you depressed and start you on a dark downward spiral. I have another idea. First: \u003ca href=\"http://350.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do something\u003c/a>, at least virtually. Second, let these movies remind you that even if everything fails, life off-Earth isn't all bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. \u003cem>Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIf\u003cem> Hitchhikers' Guide \u003c/em>taught us anything, it is that Earth, comparatively, isn't all that great anyway. This movie will motivate you to cultivate friendships with weirdos, as they may be the alien that saves you at the very last moment.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MbGNcoB2Y4I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MbGNcoB2Y4I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003cem>Avatar\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAfter \u003cem>Avatar\u003c/em> came out, there were people that fell into depression because they were so sad it wasn't real. But who SAYS it isn't real? 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